Extract from *Observations on the Transit of Venus*, a manuscript notebook from the collections of George III, showing Wollaston's presence at the 1769 Transit of Venus observations at the King's Observatory in Richmond-upon-Thames.

George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.

He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated second wrangler in 1758.^[1] He married in 1765 Elizabeth Palmer of Thurnscoe Hall and they had a single daughter Elizabeth Palmer Wollaston who died in infancy (17 April 1766).

References

^ "Wollaston, George (WLSN753G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Wollaston family tree

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William Wollaston
priest, master and scholar
(1659–1724)

Catherine Charlton
(1670–1720)

John Francis Fauquier
bank director
(1672–1726)

Elizabeth Chamberlayne
(1676–1748)

Francis Wollaston
scientist
(1694–1774)

Mary Fauquier
(1702–1773)

Francis Fauquier
governor
(1703–1768)

Elizabeth Fauquier
(1706–1764)

William Wollaston
MP
(1693–1764)

William Wollaston
army colonel and MP
(1731–1797)

Frederick Wollaston
(1735–1801)

Priscilla Ottley
(1740–1819)

William Heberden
physician
(1710–1801)

Mary Wollaston
(1730–1813)

Francis Wollaston
priest and astronomer
(1731–1815)

Althea Hyde
(1738–1798)

Charlton Wollaston
physician
(1733–1764)

George Wollaston
priest
(1738–1826)

Thomas Heberden
priest
(1754–1843)

Althea Hyde Wollaston
(1760–1785)

Francis John Hyde Wollaston
natural philosophy professor
(1762–1823)

George Hyde Wollaston
(1765–1841)

Mary Anne Luard
(1774–1817)

William Hyde Wollaston
chemist and physicist
(1766–1828)

Henry John Wollaston
(1770–1833)

Louisa Symons
(1784–1833)

Alexander Luard Wollaston
(1805–1874)

Susannah Charlotte Morris
(1807–1894)

Henrietta Wollaston
(1807–1873)

George Pollock
army field-marshal and baronet
(1786– 1872)

Frances Buchanan
(1786–1827)

Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston
(1776–1867)

Mary Ann Blanckenhagen
(1778–1805)

Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan
(1816–1910)

George Buchanan Wollaston
architect and botanist
(1814–1899)

Charles Buchanan Wollaston
priest
(1816–1887)

Eleanor Reynolds
(1824–1891)

Thomas Vernon Wollaston
entomologist and malacologist
(1822–1878)

Henry Francis Wollaston
(1803–1876)

Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor
(1816–1879)

George Hyde Wollaston
(1844–1926)

Sarah Constance Richmond
(1847–1931)

Stanley George Buchanan Wollaston
(1848–1923)

Caroline Elizabeth Harper
(1854–1898)

Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston
footballer
(1849–1926)

Arthur Naylor Wollaston
civil servant and author
(1842–1922)

Caroline Marianne Woods
(1844–1902)

Alexander Richmond Wollaston
surgeon and explorer
(1875–1930)

Herbert Arthur Buchanan Wollaston
navy rear-admiral
(1878–1975)

Margaret Ermyntrude Buchanan Wollaston
(1885–1944)

Charles Earle Raven
theology professor
(1885—1964)

Gerald Woods Wollaston
herald
(1874–1957)

John Earle Raven
philosopher
(1914–1980)

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Source: Wollaston Family Tree

Family tree of the Wollaston family